Why the study?
What is the normal pulmonary arterial pressure at rest and during exercise in healthy subjects?
Population
1,187 healthy individuals from 47 studies in 13 countries
Design
Systematic_review
Authors
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Exercise Ppa thresholds require age adjustment; challenges fixed cutoffs for defining abnormal pulmonary pressures.
What is the normal pulmonary arterial pressure at rest and during exercise in healthy subjects?
Resting pulmonary arterial pressure in healthy subjects rarely exceeds 20 mmHg, but exercise Ppa is age-related and frequently exceeds 30 mmHg in elderly individuals, challenging the definition of pathological exercise Ppa.
Kovács et al. (2009) studied this question.
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